The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · London cafes and bars, GB

London cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents?

2,910 cafe and bar and pub websites scanned, 2,011 reachable. 37% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 52% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 924 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

2,910

sites scanned

37%

turn an AI crawler away

52%

book or order on their own domain

924

score A or B

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F1,191
B605
C488
A319
D307
Menu or price list
HTML page1,043
none764
PDF159
elsewhere31
image8
on the page6
Direct booking or ordering
own site905
none837
vendor on own site142
third party70
marketplace57
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge746
Block one in robots.txt38
Unreachable from our scanner899

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 2,011 reachable sites.

Method

How this page is made

Every business of the index's kind with a website of its own is scanned the same way, about once a month, and every scan is kept. This page takes the latest scan of each site before October 2026 ended, so a site fixed in the following month shows up in the following month's page, not here. A past month does not change. The assistant tables use the latest answer per business and question before the month ended. Methodology · the live index · all cities.